Machine learning Group 2021
Following the great interest in continuing the work of the HLG-MOS Machine Learning Project, UK Office of National Statistics (ONS) is launching the Machine Learning Group 2021. The new ML group will focus on developing and implementing ML for official statistics (see slides below for presentation and live survey conducted during the HLG-MOS ML Project webinar)
Table 1: Work packages investigated by the ML 2019/2020 project (hyperlinks) and potential themes to be explored by the ML 2021 project (text in red).
| The Journey | Moving from idea to valid solution (demonstration) | Moving from valid solution to production (Operationalisation) | Ensuring production robustness (Maintenance) | ||||
Workstream 1: Support current studies towards production; welcome new studies in other processes (e.g. record linkage) and/or data sources (e.g. satellite data) | |||||||
| Supported by | Quality (accuracy, timeliness, efficiency, explainability and reproducibility) | Good Training Data | Skills/Competences | Computing Infrastructure | Interoperability / Business Process | Ethics and Legal | Security |
Workstream 2: Experiment with practices and methods on some dimensions of QF4SA (WP2); | Workstream 4: How to get good training data, how to keep it up to date, when to relearn a model, what does 'good' mean, how to measure that? | Workstream 5: What skills? How to learn? Where to find them? | To be defined | To be defined | Workstream 6: Ethics handbook, regulations , etc. | To be defined | |
| Facilitated by | Organisation | Sharing and Collaboration | |||||
Initiatives to accelerate the integration of machine learning solutions | |||||||
Workstream 7 : Create/maintain a network of data science unit leaders; | |||||||
| HLG-MOS ML Project webinar | |||||||
How to join the Group ?
Do you have any ML topic you are interested in working together with peers? Do you have any issue (technical, strategic, organisational) you want to discuss with other NSOs? Contact ML2021 (ML2021 at ons dot gov dot uk), copying UNECE (choii at un dot org) if you want to join the Machine Learning 2021 Group!
If you are a member of the Global Network of Data Officers and Statisticians, you can follow us from the ML for Official Statistics group in the Network (see quick guide on how to join the Global Network).